Report updated May 4, 2026
Weather
For users of Apple and Google Pixel hardware seeking integrated, system-native weather tracking.
Weather is a challenged weather app that is completely free. With a 4.8/5 rating from 1.7M reviews, it faces significant user friction. Users particularly appreciate radar map visualization provides helpful weather tracking for outdoor activities and travel planning, though inaccurate weather forecasting and temperature reporting lead to significant user distrust post-update remains a common concern.
What is Weather?
Weather is a system-integrated forecasting app for Apple and Pixel devices, providing real-time conditions, radar maps, and severe weather alerts.
Users hire Weather for low-friction, ad-free access to atmospheric data that syncs across their hardware, removing the need for third-party ad-supported alternatives.
Current Momentum
vVARY · 3w ago
Maintenance- Shipped Material 3 design implementation.
- Added personal weather insights.
- Enabled custom dashboard data blocks.
Active Nemesis
The Weather Channel - Radar
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Recent User Mood
What makes this app unique?
What Does It Look Like?
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What Are The Key Features?
Visualizations of precipitation intensity and wind patterns for the next 12 to 24 hours.
Push notifications for adverse conditions including hurricanes, tornadoes, and flash floods.
iCloud-based synchronization of favorite locations across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
How much does it cost?
- Free access to all features
The app operates as a free utility with no IAP or ad-supported revenue, functioning as a platform-specific retention tool.
Who Built It?
Jatisari Inovasi Studio
Providing essential system utilities and productivity tools for the Apple ecosystem. Streamlining daily workflows through deep OS-level integration.
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What do users think recently?
High confidence · Latest 100 of 198 total reviews analyzed · Based on 198 reviews. Signal may be noisy.
How did the latest release land?
What is the recent mood?
Recent user voice shows a frustrated sentiment. Users appreciate radar map visualization provides helpful weather tracking for outdoor activities and travel planning, but report inaccurate weather forecasting and temperature reporting lead to significant user distrust post-update.
What Users Love
What Frustrates Users
What Users Want
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What is the competitive landscape for Weather?
How's The Weather Market?
Market outlook for this category
Available very soon
The rivals identified
Nemeses(1)
With over 5 million ratings and a massive, active user base, this app represents the industry standard for comprehensive weather data and radar visualization.
Differentiators
- Provides hyper-local, street-level radar tracking that exceeds the target app's broader regional mapping capabilities.
- Integrates extensive health and wellness weather indices like flu, allergy, and UV tracking for proactive user planning.
- Maintains a high-frequency release cadence of 5 updates in six months to ensure platform stability and feature parity.
Head to head
The target app must decide whether to remain a minimalist utility or adopt more complex data layers to compete with the feature-rich, ad-supported model of the market leader.
Contenders(4)
A legacy player with massive scale and a well-recognized brand that continues to iterate on its core forecasting engine.
Differentiators
- Features the proprietary 'MinuteCast' technology, providing hyper-local, minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts for the next two hours.
- Offers detailed lifestyle forecasts that predict how weather conditions will impact specific activities like gardening or outdoor exercise.
Maintains a high-performance radar focus that appeals to users who prioritize visual storm tracking over general forecasts.
Differentiators
- Provides professional-grade, high-definition radar loops that are significantly more responsive than standard consumer-grade weather maps.
- Includes aviation-specific data layers that offer a unique value proposition for pilots and weather enthusiasts.
Strong international presence with a massive review volume and consistent updates, making it a formidable global competitor.
Differentiators
- Features a highly intuitive, visual-first interface that simplifies complex meteorological data for the average consumer.
- Offers a comprehensive 'weather-to-activity' recommendation engine that suggests optimal times for outdoor sports based on local conditions.
Aggressive release velocity with 15 updates in six months signals a highly responsive development team focused on rapid feature iteration.
Differentiators
- Utilizes a proprietary network of professional-grade weather stations to provide more accurate, real-time local data than standard models.
- Includes specialized lightning detection alerts that provide critical safety information during severe weather events.
Same space(3)
Differentiates through a unique, personality-driven user interface that gamifies the weather-checking experience.
Differentiators
- Features a customizable, sarcastic AI personality that provides a unique, entertaining alternative to standard weather reporting.
- Offers deep customization options for the UI, allowing users to build their own weather dashboard from modular components.
Focuses specifically on NOAA-based radar imagery, catering to users primarily concerned with severe weather monitoring.
Differentiators
- Provides direct, real-time access to official NOAA radar feeds for the most reliable severe weather tracking.
- Includes customizable push notifications for severe weather alerts that are more granular than standard system-level warnings.
A design-focused alternative that prioritizes aesthetic presentation and photography over raw data density.
Differentiators
- Integrates stunning, location-specific photography from Flickr to create a highly immersive and visually pleasing user experience.
- Maintains a minimalist, gesture-based navigation system that is significantly simpler than data-heavy competitors.
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The outtake for Weather
Strengths to defend, gaps to attack
Core Strengths
- System-level integration across Apple hardware ecosystem
- Ad-free interface maintains high user trust
- Widget-based engagement sustains daily active usage
Critical Frictions
- 2.3★ Android-iOS rating gap on latest release
- Frequent data-loading failures reported by users
- Lack of transparency in forecast data sources
Growth Levers
- Integrate third-party data source toggles to restore trust
- Expand severe weather alerts to include lightning proximity
- Leverage B2B partnerships for localized health indices
Market Threats
- WeatherBug's 15-update cadence outpaces current stability fixes
- Migration of power users to data-dense Windy.com
- Aggressive location permission requirements driving privacy churn
What are the next best moves?
Rebuild Android data-loading logic because loading failures are the #2 complaint theme → reduce churn
Android rating is 2.51 vs 4.81 on iOS, driven by loading failures.
Trade-off: Pause the Material 3 design polish on iOS — stability is the primary retention risk.
Audit weather data sources because forecast inaccuracy is the #1 complaint theme → restore trust
Users explicitly request transparency and accuracy over default provider information.
Trade-off: Deprioritize the new moon-phase visualization feature — data accuracy is the critical retention lever.
A counter-intuitive read
The app's minimalist design is its greatest vulnerability: by stripping away data density, it forces power users to migrate to competitors, leaving the app as a hollow shell for casuals.
Feature Gaps vs Competitors
- Real-time lightning detection (available in WeatherBug but absent here)
- Minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts (available in AccuWeather but absent here)
- Multi-layer global weather models (available in Windy.com but absent here)
Key Takeaways
Weather holds its category lead through native integration but bleeds users to data-dense rivals due to recent accuracy regressions, so revenue-neutral growth hinges on stabilizing the Android data-loading pipeline.
Where Is It Heading?
Declining
The weather utility market is consolidating around apps that provide hyper-local, transparent data, leaving Weather exposed due to its recent performance regressions. Unless the team addresses the Android stability and data-source transparency, the app will continue to lose its power-user base to more reliable, feature-rich competitors.
Frequent data-loading failures in the latest release lead to forced restarts, which erodes the daily habit and drives negative sentiment.
Forecast inaccuracies post-update trigger user distrust, causing a migration of power users to more granular, data-dense competitors like WeatherBug.